| There are many great long-distance bike routes | | | | are in Omega, NM. Yes very nice folks there, but |
| across New Mexico. One is from Four Corners | | | | you need to keep riding, we have barely started |
| thru the Mountains and it is truly grueling and yet | | | | and NM is a huge state to cross.There will be |
| spectacular up and down the mountainous terrain | | | | many towns along the way some actually have |
| and such a ride is not for the amateurs, unless | | | | names, but are very small. At about the 65-mile |
| you are diehard of personal character. Then there | | | | mark in the trek we will come to the Intersection |
| is another lower route on Hwy 180, very scenic | | | | of Hwy 12 and Hwy 60. No you will not be |
| as well thru Silver City, Hatch, White Sands, | | | | allowed to turn, you must keep going. At about |
| Ruidoso and into Roswell then into Texas. That is | | | | the 95-mile mile marker we will see the VLA or |
| worth doing, no I have not cycled it, but I have | | | | Very Large Array, with the radio telescope |
| taken that route by motor home, very nice.Let | | | | antennas (seen in the Hollywood Movie; Contact). |
| us consider different and yet equally spectacular | | | | We will have dropped about 500 feet in elevation |
| route. Lets start this Trek in Springer, AZ on | | | | and soon start the 23 mile down hill journey into |
| Highway 60 at about 7000 feet above sea level. | | | | Socorro, NM at an elevation of 4600 feet.This is a |
| You will enjoy the 12-mile warm up as you | | | | good days ride for many at 130 miles of |
| approach the New Mexico Border. Riding across | | | | mountain riding and Socorro, NM might be a good |
| the high plain takes a lot out of you indeed.Once | | | | stopping point for you. For me, I must keep riding |
| you cross that border it is a good 32 miles until | | | | on my Trek Across America, as the days are |
| you even hit a major cross road and when you | | | | moving ahead and the calendar does not rest for |
| do it will Hwy 32 and it will be a two lane highway | | | | the wicked.Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank |
| with a stop sign, but not for you, you need to | | | | forum board. |
| keep riding for another mile or two and then you | | | | |